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Parrikar’s role in Goa unenviable CAMIL PARKHE |  Sunday, 19 March 2017 AT 02:23 PM IST       CAMIL PARKHE ,  Manohar Parrikar ,  Goa ,  CM Finally, the BJP has formed a coalition government in Goa, albeit with reduced seats as compared to the previous house. This indicates that Manohar Parrikar, who has been sworn in as chief minister for the fourth term, will have a daunting task in retaining power for the full fiver-year term in the tiny state. The fractured mandate in Goa has created problems for the two main political parties in the state, the BJP and the Congress. The defeat of Chief Minister Laxmikant Parsekar and seven members of his Cabinet has served a big jolt for the BJP, which had been on a climbing graph in the state for over one-and-half decades. The BJP's strength in the House has been reduced from 21 to 13. The opposition Congress had won 17 seats, almost double of its tally in the previous House, and four seats more t...

Lone Christian member in Pune Municipal Corporation is from MIM CAMIL PARKHE |  Monday, 13 March 2017 AT 12:51 PM IST       All India Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen ,  political party ,  Muslim community ,  Christian candidate ,  PMC election , MIM ,  Ashwini Landge ,  christian community ,  Pune ,  Camil Parkhe    goo.gl/GLVU3f PUNE:  The All India Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen, otherwise referred to as a political party representing only the Muslim community, has provided the only Christian member in the newly elected Pune Municipal Corporation. Ashwini Daniel Landge, a MIM nominee, was elected a member of the Pune Municipal Corporation from the open woman category in panel number six from Yerwada.  Incidentally Landge is also the MIM's only member in the 162-member House. The MIM had contested altogether 25 seats in the city. The party had hoped to win a few seats in Muslim-dominated Kondhwa...

The fall and fall of the Congress in Pune Municipal Corporation CAMIL PARKHE |  Sunday, 5 March 2017 AT 10:38 AM IST       CAMIL PARKHE ,  PMC ,  Pune Municipal Corporation ,  Congress Bhavan ,  Nationalist Congress Party ,  Pune The Congress Bhavan and the Pune Municipal Corporation (PMC) headquarters located in Shivajinagar are separated only by a small lane. It was only incidental that the Congress ruled the Pune Municipal Corporation during the post-independent period for decades until its splinter group, the Nationalist Congress Party (NCP), took over the reigns a decade ago. The two neighbours i.e. The Congress Bhavan and the Pune Municipal Corporation had close ties besides their physical proximity. With the Bharatiya Janata Party storming into the Congress-NCP stronghold, the decades-old rule of the Congress in the civic body has come to an end. In the 162-member House, now, the BJP has 98 members, while the Congr...

German play 'Fluchpunkte' to be held on Friday CAMIL PARKHE |  Wednesday, 1 March 2017 AT 10:58 PM IST       Camil Parkhe ,  theatre group ,  German play ,  Fluchpunkte ,  Jyotsna Bhole Hall ,  artist ,  Pune Pune: 'Theatre group 001' will stage a German play  'Fluchpunkte'  based on the theme of refugees and displaced  persons at Jyotsna Bhole hall here at 7 pm on Friday, March 3. Teachers and students of German language in the city have enacted in the play. The play is open to all. The duration is 1 hour 15 minutes. The play is conceptualised and directed by Manjiri Paranjape. The premier of the play was performed in an International Conference on “Migration: Politics and Poetics” in the last week of February in Pune and was very much appreciated by the experts from India and Germany. The problem of migrants in Europe and especially in Germany has become right now of prime importance. Many people from...